ErikW Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 I don't like stages with walls that are higher than my chest. It takes longer for us short people to acquire the targets behind them and it puts us in awkward shooting positions. It gives an advantage to tall folks.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dani Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 Erik I don't like windows at 15" from the floor, it gives advantages to shorts folks. Usually there are more windows than high walls, don't you think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ankeny Posted November 14, 2001 Share Posted November 14, 2001 At 6'4" I am with Dani. Shooting through ports and barrels, and so on really sucks. Gives a huge advantage to short people... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted November 14, 2001 Author Share Posted November 14, 2001 We can all stoop, bend, kneel, or go prone to lower ourselves to a port of infinitely low height, but I can only gain an inch or two by standing on my tip-toes for a high port. I'm going to start demanding a booster platform as outlined in the rulebook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ron Ankeny Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Eric: I was just joshing you. I set up quite a few courses and I really have to watch it because I am so tall. I try to keep walls that need to be shot over no higher than 4 feet. Is that still too high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shooter Grrl Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 4 ft works for Erik, but not for me :-) I have an AWFUL time at matches being "almost 5'2"! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 Four feet is somewhere around my armpits and is still awkward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Four feet is the size of a piece of plywood. We have to have some basis in the "practical". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38supPat Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 4' walls aren't a problem.....if stage designers can figure somewhere else to put the targets other than 2.5' away and on the ground. Hey heres an origional idea, how 'bout some distance shots? I think I have shot that exact target array about 40 times this year...its getting a bit old. Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2alpha Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Vertical slots are the best, fair for everyone. JJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Imagine the IPSC stage of the future... Before you shoot the stage a computer operated electronic device makes a light humming sound as it lowers down to touch the top of your head as you stand in the "pre-shoot-stage-configuration-box." Then, as you are given the load and make ready commands, all the props in the stage electronically adjust (up or down) to compensate for your physical height... be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icer Posted November 15, 2001 Share Posted November 15, 2001 Nice idea Brian.......but you know guys would game it by squatting or standing on their toes.........and the monumental amount of bitching by the poor sap picked that month to get up at 4 in the morning to run all that wiring for the electronic targets........there go all my set up volunteers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErikW Posted November 15, 2001 Author Share Posted November 15, 2001 ...or it'll have one of those amusement park signs: You must be this tall to shoot this stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 Wiring??? The "pre-shoot-stage-configuration-box" would have to be RF...we would likely be shooting holograms anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonedaddy Posted November 16, 2001 Share Posted November 16, 2001 I love this sport! I am so totally "average" that somebody always has a harder time with a wall or port than I do. Maybe it's time for a new slogan? USPSA: The Sport for the Average Guy. Or maybe "AVERAGE ROCKS!" ? Shorter......taller......I guess it all averages out huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted November 19, 2001 Share Posted November 19, 2001 if you want a booster thats no probelm, but i have to wine about being tall, its impossibile for me to get as low (i'm 6'2") as some people, i am not extremely flexible, there for i want no shooting barrels lower than my belly button at the top edge, and no ports between the heighth of mid thigh and said belly button region. yes, USPSA does make being average a good thing! unless its a tall or short guy designed stage :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lumpy Posted November 21, 2001 Share Posted November 21, 2001 I'm 6'3" and sure walls that are high are no problem for me. My buddy "Taz" is 5 foot nothin and sure it's tough for him to shoot over walls. I see more "fat guy" eliminator stages than "short guy" eliminators. I've almost blacked out due to lack of oxygen from shooting in very low awkward ports on stages. :-) Here is another situation I ran into. Stage was a "quick & dirty" with 4 targets situated behind a wall that was on the berm. You started with gun loaded on table with yourself seated in a lawn chair. On signal you had to get out of the chair, retreive your gun, run up to the wall, and engage the targets from around the sides. Great, fine and dandy for the little guys, but you take a 300 lbs+, 6'3" guy and plunk him in a standard lawn chair and you have a problem. Everytime I played with the stage I'd get up with a lawnchair stuck to my ass. Ya ya, laugh all you want. My solution was, because gun is loaded on table, to take off my holster rig as it was "locking" into the chair. Of course the skinny guys ran to the match director to complain that I now have an unfair advantage. So what? I gain what a 1/2 second of struggling to get me big butt out of a lawn chair? Let's think about it, either they make the stage to accomadate ALL shooters or they throw it out. In the end, stage stayed, I was allowed to shoot without my holster rig on, skinny whiny guys were told to shut their yaps. :-) It's only a game. Lumpy (Edited by Lumpy at 4:17 pm on Nov. 21, 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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